Act 13:48 | JFB | STEP | 48. when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad —to perceive that their accession to Christ was a matter of divine arrangement as well as apostolic effort. and glorified the word of the Lord —by a cordial reception of it. and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed —a very remarkable statement, which cannot, without force, be interpreted of anything lower than this, that a divine ordination to eternal life is the cause, not the effect, of any man's believing.

Acts 13:48

48. when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad—to perceive that their accession to Christ was a matter of divine arrangement as well as apostolic effort.

and glorified the word of the Lord—by a cordial reception of it.

and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed—a very remarkable statement, which cannot, without force, be interpreted of anything lower than this, that a divine ordination to eternal life is the cause, not the effect, of any man's believing.